Remote Analytics Developer

Summary

The job is for an Analytics Developer in the Growth Data Science team at Wealthsimple. The role involves building data models, developing reports and dashboards, implementing data controls, and translating business requirements into data models. The ideal candidate should have strong technical skills in manipulating large data sets, experience with cloud data warehousing, data visualization tools, and software engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Strong technical skills in manipulating large data sets with complex SQL and Python
• Keen interest in growth strategies
• Excellent communication skills in order to translate business requirements into data models and maintain clear documentation
• Able to build and maintain multi functional relationships with various teams across the business

Responsibilities

• Build data models in the cloud data warehouse that will be used as the source of truth for analytics and machine learning
• Develop comprehensive reports and dashboards to support data-driven decision making
• Implement and maintain robust data controls to ensure data integrity and accuracy
• Apply software engineering best practices like version control and continuous integration to the analytics code base
• Ideate and implement new models and analytics
• Translate business requirements into data models that will help stakeholders answer key business questions
• Ensure models are well tested, documented and maintained

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with product growth, marketing, or sales would be an asset
• Experience with dbt is an asset
• Experience with data visualization tools on the cloud (e.g. Apache Superset)
• Comfortable with software engineering best practices like version control and using Git
• Experience with cloud data warehousing (e.g. Snowflake, Bigquery, Redshift)
• Proficient understanding of data warehousing methodologies and concepts (Kimball, Inmon, etc)

Benefits

• Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
• 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
• Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
• 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year